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calotype

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calotype [ˈkæləʊˌtaɪp]
n
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a photograph made by this process
[from Greek kalos beautiful + -type]
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Thanks to French painter and dioramist Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) and the daguerreotype and to Englishman, mathematician, and chemist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and his calotype and paper negative we were freed to look at the world, and ourselves, in new ways.
DEJA VIEWS; SANTA FE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
The Collection has many photographic techniques, such as: bromoil, paper negative, Fresson, calotype, multi-toning, metal-chrome, and montage, with outstanding examples represented.
History of the PSA Print Collection by Todd, Sharp / PSA Journal
These include the early daguerrotype (a negative image on metal) and calotype (on paper).
Picture the past by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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